Check out our Week-at-a-Glance calendar to see when Student Spotlight Gallery Carts are happening at the MIT Museum.

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Student Carts Spring 2025

• Communicating Through Sound and Language
  Matthew Caren | Computer Science and Engineering, 2025
  Explore the cognitive science behind how people use their voices to communicate.

• MIT: Made In miT
  Beson Zhan Li Lin | Computer Science and Engineering, 2027
  Learn about the making technologies available at MIT and how to integrate them into cool personal projects.

• Hullabaloo: Exploring Boats in Motion
  Angie Fortuno | Computer Science and Engineering, 2028
  Amy Shi | Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, 2026
  Teagan Sullivan | Mechanical and Ocean Engineering, 2026
  Construct different boat designs and test them in real time with students from Arcturus, MIT's autonomous robotics team.

• FLI at MIT
  Asal Vaghefzadeh | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2025
  Learn about the history and experiences of first generation and low-income students at MIT.

• EmoToon: Drawing Comics with AI
  Jocelyn Shen, Isabella Pu | Graduate Students in Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab
  Play with an AI-powered creativity support tool to draw your own comic storyboard.

• Mucus: Our Knight in Slimy Armor
  Daniel Sellers | Graduate Student in Biological Engineering, The Ribbeck Lab
  Learn and see how mucus defends our bodies against bad bacteria while supporting a healthy gut microbiome.

• Quantum Gravity: Small Things, Big Hands, and Black Holes
  Nicolas Valdes-Meller | Graduate Student in Physics, Center for Theoretical Physics
  Learn about the prettiest and hardest problem in theoretical physics.

• Galaxies in TECHnicolor
  David DePalma | Graduate Student in Physics, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
  Guess the elements in a gas by viewing its emission spectrum and learn how astrophysicists identify which elements compose a galaxy.